Yes!! Stand up for your rites, brothers! U all ride safely, now ;-)
We're sacrificing them ritulistically now? Bit harsh but given I'm still waiting for a hard drive to turn up...
no-one seems to know what the postal workers dispute is actually about - I've got this vision of the picket line: "What do we Want?" "We don't know!" "When do we want it?" "NOW!" etc.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, darsy said: One of tha bruthas was sacked for something and some of his esteemed colleagues took umbrage to this and walked out. That's how it started anyway, now they're moaning about all sorts.
Probably about having a shite job, for a shite company with little security and the risk that your 'trade' becomes obsolete in the near future. Oh, and working for shite pay on top of all that
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Andy Bonwick said: That's what it's all about. There are talks going on next week to try and get it resolved but unless matey is reinstated (and who would want to go back to a place they'd been sacked from?), and there's a host of other benefits for all, I don't see it working out. I mean, it is bloody inconvenient for the public/services but they know this and they've got Royal mail by the balls. Good on 'em.
And behaviour that wouldn't be tolerated in most private companies. According to todays paper, they're well on the way to putting another nail in the Royal Mail coffin, as the post regulator is speeding up allowing other companies to deliver post. They may just find one of these days that none of them will have any jobs to go back to - wonder who'll they'll blame then.
Aside from the pay, that's almost the exact same position I'm in - but if I went on strike I would be out the door.
Please free us from this monopoly and allow the market to make it work. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 pm #6 apostle [kotl] flo#12[with bar] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Suckling the Mender"
It does work generally, at least down here, when they're not playing at being Arthur Scargills best mates. -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
One of the last industrial dinosaurs though, innit. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 pm #6 apostle [kotl] flo#12[with bar] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Suckling the Mender"
In uk.rec.motorcycles, dwb said: I have no idea who they'll blame. Themselves if they're honest. I suspect a lot of the current postal workers will be taken on by these private companies if the bill goes through so hopefully for all concerned the working conditions will be more favourable.
That as may be, but when you consider the cost of sending a letter, it's pretty good overall, or at least IME. Still, we're had a stonking day yesterday at work, so the longer they keep it up, the bigger my bank balance... ;-) -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
In uk.rec.motorcycles, dwb said: If you work alone or have only a few people to work with, perhaps. If you were the militant type and could gather enough support for a strike and everyone did it your company couldn't really do much about it. What with all the extra effort of finding new staff, training and the like they might decide it's easier to find a compromise.
That's the whole point. It needs to be 50p or a pound for a letter, provided it'll get there. If I need to send something important I'll use our carrier [Business Post} and pay six quid... but it'll be there. -- cane [at] ukrm.org ¦ fireblade, r30 botafo t#50 f#03 YTC #15 bbb #6 pm #6 apostle [kotl] flo#12[with bar] New? http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html Rideout? http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/botafof/ "Suckling the Mender"
Compared to the unskilled manual labour that the royal mail mostly consists of you've probably got a hell of a lot more skills, even if they came under the banner of "general office skills".
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick Well, yes. And, no... The union members voted against strike action. These are wildcat strikes.
Send it recorded, is what I normally do... at least you can track it online then - a snip at an additional 63p, IIRC. IMHO, this is a case of 'be careful what you wish for'; whilst some previously nationalised business interests have allegedly flourished since being privatised, others, notably the railways, have seen little, if any improvement... at least that is what I have seen in my limited experiences. People... items of post - the one thing they both have in common is a very high volume of physical objects be they parcels or persons, needing to be physically moved to all four corners of the land, and I'd not be looking at industries such as the energy business as a model on how to make a deregulated postal industry work. What is the weight limit on that, just out of interest? -- JackH - D.Bot (University of Speed) BOTAFOT #110 - BOTAFOF #29 - GSX750F "We might be ugly, but we don't care..."
